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Nov 17, 2021 · Love it Was Not is a stunning documentary by Israeli director Maya Sarfaty about a romance between young Franz Wunsch, an Austrian SS Guard, and Helena Citron, a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.
- Risa Sarachan
After the liberation, Franz Wunsch had tried to trace Helena Citron through the Red Cross International Tracing Service, but she – in the meantime living in Israel – had refused to make contact. In 1972, however, she testified as a witness at Wunsch’s trial and her evidence helped exonerate him.
Nov 5, 2021 · By Simi Horwitz November 5, 2021. There seems to be little doubt that SS officer Franz Wunsch was intensely in love with Helena Citron, a pretty and talented Jewish inmate in Auschwitz. Her...
Feb 14, 2018 · Real stories in the concentration camps. HELENA CITRÓNOVÁ & FRANZ WUNSCH. FROBBIDEN LOVE IN AUSCHWITZ. In the spring of 1942, two thousand unmarried women from Slovakia were deported in two trains to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. Helena Citrónová was among them. ”
A Luebeck jury has acquitted former SS officer Franz Wunsch, 50, and Otto Graf, 52. Both were accused of the mass murder of Jews in Eastern Europe during World War II. They were found not...
Sep 28, 2017 · Thirty years following Nazi Germany’s defeat and the end of World War II, in 1972, Wunsch was put on trial in Vienna, accused of being cruel towards prisoners by beating men and women alike and operated at the gas chambers to insert the lethal gas.
Nov 4, 2021 · Review: ‘Love It Was Not’ focuses on a relationship that reverberates decades later. A composite image of SS officer Franz Wunsch and Auschwitz prisoner Helena Citron from the documentary ...
